US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on May 26 for "Reinforced concrete structure joint including smart memory alloy bars and method of manufacturing the same" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,861, issued on May 26, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Reinforced concrete structure joint including smart memory alloy bars and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Mohamed Jamal Alshannag (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Ali Saeed Alqarni (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mahmoud Mohammed Higazey (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforced concrete structure includes a first elongated concrete body extending in a first direction and a second elongated concrete body extending in a second direction, different from the first direction, and connected to the first elongated body. The first...